Jacksonville High School - Crimson J Yearbook (Jacksonville, IL)

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10 The Nautilus. Woodburn—Lecky’s American Revolutton. Burnaby—Travels Through America. Green—History of the English People, 4 vols. Kendall—Source Book of English History. Gardner—Cromwell’s Place in History. Gardner—Atlas of English History. Campridge Modern History, 1 vol Renaissance. Munro—A Source Book. Pelham—Outlines of Roman History. Coulter—Plant Relations. Coulter—Plant Structures. Ayrton —Practical Electricity. Cooke—The New Chemistry, Noyes—Qualetative Chemical Analysis. Blanchan—Bird Neighbors. Blanchan—BirJs that Hunt and are Hunted. Darwin—Formation of Vegetable Mould. Beard—Curiour Homes and Their Tenants. Hodge—Nature Study and Life. Weed—Life Histories of American Insects. Welsh—English Masterpiece Course. Trent—American Literature. Huntington—Manual of Trees in Winter. Darwin—Cross and Self Fertilization in the Vegetable Kingdom. Bailey—Principles of Agriculture. Beal—Seed Dispersal. Figuier—The Vegetable World. Avebury—Flowers, Fruits and Leaves. Russell—Rivers of North America. Shaler—Story of our Continent. Gave—The World's Great Farm. Heilprin—The Earth and Its Story. Wright—Light. Lodge—Elementary Mechanics. St. John—Things a Boy Should Know About Electricity. Shaw—Physics by Experiment. Painter—Introduction to American Literature. Bronson—American Literature. Arnold—Manual of English Literature. .Woody and Lovett—First View of English Literature. Taine—English Literature. McMurray— Special Method in Literature and History. Clark —Handbook of Best Readings. Boas—With Milton and the Cavaliers. Newcomer—English Literature. Whitney—Life and Growth of Language. Abbott—How to Write Clearly. It is planned to make an equally large addition to the library next year. LIBRARY

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The Nautilus 9 where we find eight beautiful recitation rooms and a general lecture room arranged around a spacious corridor which serves as a banquet hall on festal occasions. While the famous Turner Art Exhibit was with us from May 8 to 11, this beautiful corridor was turned into an art gallery. Two hundred reprints of the most famous paintings of Ancient and Modern shown below. The library contains two thousand volumes. Realizing that the collection was entirely too small, a movement was started this year to build it up until it shall be adequate to the needs of the school. The following books were added this year: Old Virginia and Her Neighbors, 2 vols. Beginnings of New England. The Discovery of America, 2 vols. M. T. Exhibit—Corridor First Floor times adorned its walls, making their complete circuit. The rooms on this floor are occupied by departments of Mathematics, Latin, German, History and Music. Climbing a second flight of stairs at either end of the East and West corridor we arrive at the second floor in a hall that extends acrossthe building from East to West. On the north side are two recitation rooms occupied by the department of English and Literature, separated bv the high school library, a section of which is The Critical Period in American History. Von Holst—Constitutional History of the United States, 8 vols. American History Told by Contemporaries, 4 vols. Thwaites Colonies, 2 vols. Doyle—English Colonies in America, 3 vols. Harris—Negro Servitude in Illinois. Thwaites—How Clark Won the N. W. Macdonald—Select Charters, 2 vols. “ — “ Statutes. “ — “ Documents. Frothingham—Rise ' of the Republic of United States. Mowry—Territorial Growth of the United States. Sparks—Expansion of the American People. B radford—Ply mouth Plantation. Avary—Dixie After the War. Semple—American History and its Geographical Condition.

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